Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Wednesday that President Trump is “not delighted” with Elon Musk’s shift to oppose the megabill of the president’s tax cut and spending priorities, saying that the billionaire tech mogul had reversed positions by trashing the legislation.
“He’s not delighted that Elon did a 180 on that,” Johnson said Wednesday.
Trump himself has not personally weighed in on Musk calling the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which is meant to be a defining legislative achievement for the president — a “disgusting abomination” in post Tuesday on social platform X.
Johnson said he talked to Musk for half an hour Monday, arguing that the bill is “just the beginning of a long process of making government more efficient and effective, of cutting wasteful spending, fraud and abuse.